Remembered Mother ordering china patterned with his 10 insights to replace her Jungian Royal Dolton. The 10th never came… Another coincidence, like finding this DVD?

Remember Father phoning Chopra, David Rico, and Frank Joseph about coincidence and their relationship to Redfield’s work.

They were, coincidently, on a conference call with each other and would not speak to Father about the missing coincidental china pattern.

Sitting amongst the books… remembering all my birthdays down here. Born on Shrove Tuesday… Mom always made pancakes and latkes.

We never knew if it was pancake Tuesday or Hanukah…

What would Mom say about these bright lights? Where does Groucho come into it? Mom liked the Buddha: Portable, totally transcendent; available in all sizes; practical, not a God. Buddha said he didn’t know about such things, a mystery to him. He took a shot at suffering, no explanation, just a plan to deal with it.

Buddha phase in our house… lot of fun with the riddles, koans, brain teasers to trigger enlightenment: One hand clapping; Does a dog have a Buddha nature; if you think you see the Buddha, then kill him.

Koans… good in high school for attracting new girls surprised by our wisdom. School year book says we were: ‘Deep and complicated too.’

Parents used ‘surprise attacks’ on Jehovah Witnesses at our door. Invite them in sincerely wanting to know about their Kingdom of Heaven. They also wanted them explain it to an assortment of faiths.

After the Witnesses left Father would always say: ‘I’m not attacking their system or worldview.’ Father suffered all his life from Socratic Hyper interrogation… could not stop questioning all religions… he wanted better answers for the insanities of suffering and tragedy…

With the ecumenical group still gathered, Dad, a cross-dresser, liked to change into his Grand Inquisitor, anti-Christ outfit and come out quoting the Talmud, the Torah, the Gnostics, the Pentateuch, Huxley’s Perennial Philosophy, Bradshaw, Tolles, Williamson, Peck, Moore, Castaneda, Watts and Neale Donald Walsch, climaxing with Malcolm Muggerridge.

DVD starting… it’s digital history… Father’s vain attempt to synthesize sacred books, the Bible, the Koran, the Dhammapada, the Torah, the Bhagavad Gita, and the Vedas into computer languages of COBOL, Algol, and Java Script. In binary fashion, he’s saying ‘yes and no’ in his attempts for universal compatibility between technology and religions…

That’s James Earl Jones, CNN’s voice, announcing consensual deaths of Father and Mother. Camera taking us to a Platonic cave of forms and metaphysical floats just back from a parade at the Acropolis… One of the floats has my parents lying in their bed of 70 years.

Redfield’s outside the cave screaming: ‘I’ve brought the 10th piece of china… the insight’s not ready.’

Glen Russell has worked in radio and television; has been a writer in exile living the last five years in East Sooke talking only to the trees, the Strait of Juan de Fuca, the Olympic Mountains, and his keyboard. He has seen new light in Ladysmith.

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